The Empress potato variety, released in 2015, It features smooth yellow colored skin and flesh, and an oval to oblong shape. Known for its firm texture, Empress is versatile for boiling, steaming, roasting, baking, and mashing, offering a creamy interior and crispy exterior. It is adaptable to various soil types and temperate climates, providing a good yield and moderate resistance to common potato diseases.
Plant and Tuber Characteristics
- Foliage Maturity: Medium
- Emergence: Fairly Fast
- Plant Vigour: High
- Tuber Shape: Oval
- Shape Uniformity: Very Good
- Eye Depth: Very Shallow
- Skin Colour: Yellow
- Flesh Colour: Yellow
- Tuber Size: Medium - Small
- Tuber Set: High (18-23)
Resistances
- Resistance to Foliage Late Blight: High
- Resistance to Tuber Late Blight: Fairly High
- Resistance to Pitted Common Scab: Fairly High
- Resistance to Netted Common Scab: Fairly High
- Resistance to Pvy: (Medium)
- Resistance to Pvyntn: High
- Resistance to Pcn G.rostochiensis (RO1-4): Full
- Resistance to Pcn G.rostochiensis (RO2-3): Low
- Resistance to G.pallida (PA2): Fairly Low
- Resistance to G.pallida (PA3): Null
- Resistance to Wart Disease (F1,F6,F18): Full
- Resistance to Early Blight: High
Quality
- Yield: Fairly High
- Dry Matter Content: Fairly High (20-22%)
- Disintegration: Very Slight
- After Cooking Darkening: Very Slight
- Cooking Type: A-B
- Frying Colour at Harvest: Fairly Good
- Storage Ability: (Medium)
